Tag: Poland
Anti-restitution law ignites diplomatic crisis between Israel and Poland
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned Israel on Sunday that its continued criticism of Poland’s recently passed anti-restitution law could harm ties between the two countries.
“Israel’s decision to downgrade its diplomatic representation in Warsaw...
Lapid decries passage of Poland’s ‘anti-Semitic’ restitution law, recalls charge d’affaires from Warsaw
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Saturday night accused Poland of having “become an anti-democratic, non-liberal country that does not honor the greatest tragedy in human history.”
Lapid was responding to Polish President Andrzej Duda’s...
Blinken: US ‘deeply concerned’ by Polish bill blocking Holocaust victims from reclaiming property
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the United States is “deeply concerned” by legislation passed by the Polish parliament earlier in the day barring Holocaust survivors and their descendants from reclaiming property...
Outdoor exhibit about history of Polish Jews travels to Eastern European cities
A new traveling outdoor exhibition about the history of Polish Jews is making its way through five cities in Poland following a successful showing in Croatia and Norway.
Titled “They Fill No Space: Reviving the...
After latest legislation on stolen Jewish property, it’s time to cut ties with Poland’s...
Poland is awash in anti-Semitism, and it is the government in Warsaw that is setting the hateful tone amid the worst breakdown in Polish-Jewish relations since the fall of Communism more than 30 years...
New monument pays tribute to archive hidden by Jews in Warsaw Ghetto
A new monument in Poland that honors a Holocaust-era archive compiled by Jews who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto was unveiled on Monday on the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The monument, a glass...
From the Holocaust to the IDF: Grandfather and grandson share a story of survival...
As Israel prepared to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, a grandfather who survived the Nazi atrocities in Poland and his grandson shared a powerful story of survival and continuity.
Chaim Luviner, born in 1933 in Poland,...
Why are Jews and Poles still arguing about the Holocaust?
It’s a controversy in which there are no heroes, as well as one that in a more rational world no one would bother with. That’s the only way to describe the increasingly complicated brawl...
‘New Yorker’ takes heat for article on Polish complicity during Holocaust
The New Yorker is under fire for an article it posted last week that critics claim lays the blame for the murder of Jews in Poland during World War II on the Polish people and not the Nazis.
The magazine...
Yad Vashem ‘deeply disturbed’ by Polish court verdict in Holocaust libel case
Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center said on Thursday that it was “deeply disturbed” by the implications of a Polish court’s recent ruling in a libel case involving the alleged wartime actions of Edward...